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A California woman accused of bringing 23 bales of marijuana to Columbus on Monday is not an
heiress to the Samsung Electronics fortune, as she told investigators, the company announced late
last night.

Nor is Lisette Lee, 28, a member of the Lee family that founded the company, according to a
Samsung release.

Media outlets around the world had reported the alleged connection;
The Dispatch had not.

Lee, of Beverly Hills, was apprehended Monday night after she got off a private jet at Lane
Aviation at Port Columbus. Drug Enforcement Administration agents found 13 suitcases filled with
marijuana in the plane; they had been tipped by Los Angeles DEA agents.

The plane flew in from Van Nuys, Calif., with Lee, a bodyguard and two assistants.

Anthony Marotta, the DEA's assistant special agent in charge of Ohio, said investigators are
sorting through the stories and facts of the case to determine who else is involved and whether
others should be charged.

The DEA charged Lee with felony counts of possession of marijuana and conspiracy to distribute
marijuana. She'll be in U.S. District Court in Columbus for a bond hearing Friday morning.

Marotta said the street value of the marijuana in the suitcases is a half-million dollars. The
seller would clear $300,000 to $350,000 once expenses are taken into account, he said.

Lee told the DEA that she's from a wealthy family, according to the federal criminal complaint.
A federal spokesman said Lee claimed that her family founded the Samsung empire.

Lee's attorneys, Bill Meeks and David Thomas, would not comment today.

California property records show that two people, Lisette Lee and Christian Navarro, bought a
$1.23 million Hollywood apartment in 2006, then sold it for $827,500 in November 2009.

In
a photograph taken at the Wine Aficionado Dinner in Los Angeles in 2008, Lee
is sitting at a table leaning her head against Navarro, a co-owner of the high-end
Wally's Wine & Spirits in Los
Angeles.

The store's website describes Navarro as a wine "guru" to "former presidents, Wall Street
players and the entertainment industry's top moguls and stars."

Contacted yesterday at Wally's, Navarro said he is not Lee's fiance and had "no comment" about
her.

Another photograph of the couple, from November, shows them on the opening night of the Bouchon
restaurant in Beverly Hills. Hollywood stars Pierce Brosnan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are shown in
other photographs from the event.

Lee and Navarro also are listed as cast members of
The Doorman, a 2008 movie about the gatekeeper at a famous New York City nightclub. Navarro is listed as
playing himself in the movie; Lee is listed as playing "Baby Sugar Mama."